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                                   1444
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 15, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. D. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend the public housing law,  in  relation  to  limiting  the
   right  of  the New York city housing authority to transfer elderly and
   long-time residents from their housing accommodations

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 6 of section 402 of the public housing law, as
 added by chapter 970 of the laws of 1968, is amended to read as follows:
   6. In addition to all other powers granted by this  chapter,  the  New
 York  city  housing  authority shall have the power to act as and be and
 become a "developer", as that term is defined  in  subdivision  nine  of
 section four hundred fifty-two of the education law, of a combined occu-
 pancy  structure, as defined in subdivision five of section four hundred
 fifty-two of such law, which consists of a project, as defined  in  this
 chapter,  as well as of school accommodations or other facilities of the
 board of education of the city of New York, and  to  be  and  become  an
 "owner",  as  that  term  is defined in subdivision fifteen-a of section
 four hundred fifty-two of the education law, of the non-school  portion,
 consisting  of  a  project  as defined in this chapter, of such combined
 occupancy structure; and to do all things  necessary  or  convenient  to
 carry out such powers, including (a) construction of such combined occu-
 pancy  structure as a developer pursuant to the provisions of this chap-
 ter and article ten of the education law, and conveyance or lease of the
 school portion thereof, and (b) as an owner, making  and  entering  into
 contracts  for  acquisition,  lease, sublease or other agreements for or
 with respect to the non-school  portion,  consisting  of  a  project  as
 defined  in  this  chapter, pursuant to the provisions of article ten of
 the education law, and acquiring the same by transfer or  conveyance  to
 it  of  the  fee  title,  or of possession under such lease, sublease or
 other agreement.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD01027-01-9

 A. 1444                             2
 
   NOTWITHSTANDING ANY LAW TO THE CONTRARY, ANY RESIDENT LEASE  AGREEMENT
 ENTERED  INTO  BY  THE  NEW  YORK  CITY  HOUSING AUTHORITY, CONTAINING A
 "TRANSFER TO APPROPRIATE SIZE APARTMENT" PROVISION,  OR  SUCH  PROVISION
 HAVING  SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME EFFECT, SHALL NOT APPLY WHERE A MEMBER OF
 THE  HOUSEHOLD LAWFULLY OCCUPYING THE HOUSING ACCOMMODATION IS SIXTY-TWO
 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER, OR HAS BEEN A TENANT IN THE HOUSING ACCOMMODATION
 IN THAT BUILDING FOR TWENTY YEARS OR MORE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.